Crater Library & Publishers is first and foremost a repository for  digital books. However, we can build our collection if we do not provide content marketing to authors. Authors need more than a library. They need libraries that are dedicated to supporting and making their works visible. Making money from it, is always a welcome bonus to them.  As a result, Crater Library & Publishers staff consciously made a decision to  encourage non-fiction content creators, authors, publishers, researchers and everyone interested in contributing to literacy and promoting research in Nigeria to publish with Crater Library & Publishers. With us,  their works will never be lost on a dusty shelf and they will also  get compensated for their published digital works, if interested.

Content Creators, authors, writers and publishers are free to  send or upload  free complimentary e-copies of their work if desired. We support and encourage open access resources especially for research

Crater Library & Publishers offers readers and researchers an opportunity to discover plenty published titles e-books and  research data  under any genre they desire. We offer affordable priced e-resources for online reads,loans, purchase and download. All Crater books are readable on any e-reading device.

 Crater Library & Publishers makes it fast, free and easy to publish and market your e-book to the world. Authors control the pricing, loaning and marketing of their e-books, and receive 80% of the net sales proceeds from their works.

Yes, we do. Because we want to encourage access to content and assist ‘undigitized’ authors, we will gladly  convert your print books and documents into electronic format at no cost but we do have one condition for you. Don’t worry, our condition it’s nothing scary…or alarming.

We also accept print copies from authors who want to donate free books for the Crater Literary Festival. Contact us via litfest@craterlibrary.com if you want to bless our festival attendees with your books.

Simply sign up for an account if you haven’t already (it’s free).  We’ll send you a confirmation e-mail; with a hyperlink you’ll click to activate your account. The email will also provide you next steps, the first of which is to read The Crater Library Style Guide for instructions on how to format your manuscript prior to upload. Once your manuscript is formatted, and you have a professional cover image prepared, you click “Publish” and follow the steps.

We are currently accepting e-books , manuscripts , e-zines, documents  that are listed on our catalog list.

However, there may be exceptions to this, and Crater Library & Publishers reserves the right to judge whether submitted e-resource is suitable to be added to its archive.

Yes you do. You do not have to take any action to claim copyright over your work, it exists automatically. Copyright law is very complicated. The restrictions vary according to the type of material. To register your work for copyright online, click on Insert this link here.

It is important that Crater Library & Publishers protects the intellectual property rights of people contributing original material. However it is also important that any e-resource added to the collection is of practical use to  Crater Library & Publishers patrons.

We are grateful to you for choosing Crater Library & Publishers to publish your work. There are a number of administrative, software and data entry functions necessary to ensure your work is uploaded correctly, including the metadata (such as author, title and subject keywords) required to make it fully accessible to the library patrons.

All text documents and images are reviewed to ensure that they comply with our rules before it is approved for viewing and download. We aim to make text documents and images available within 72 hours of submission, but this may vary, depending on the amount of work required.

For video and audio files, a different system of uploading is necessary due to file sizes and this also applies to text and images where the file size exceeds 50mb

Text documents

PDF is the preferred format. However we will accept the following:

.pdf, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf

Images

Images should be compiled into a PDF document to be compatible for download as an eBook. We accept:

.jpg, .bmp, .png

Audio

.wma, .mp3

Video

.wmv

NOTE: If you wish to submit a work but cannot provide it in any of the above formats, please contact us via mycontent@thecraterlibrary.com and we will do our best to find a solution.

Our aim is to make publishing as easy as possible. Simply click on the publish button. (Remember, this doesn’t automatically make your work available for patrons. It has to be approved by the Crater  staff before it is open to users.)

To help us make your work as accessible as possible to other library patrons we have provided a submission form for you to complete when you click publish. . This requires you to provide some basic details about your work and to agree to the Creative Commons license.

If you are also having troubles uploading on our website, please forward your e-book and cover image to mycontent@thecraterlibrary.com with book title as subject.

We must confess that not much thought was given to this name. The first time we contacted the Crater web designer via e-mail, the subject had to have the name of the proposed digital library so we went with the first thing that came to our mind “Crater”. Weeks later when we decided to change it, we couldn’t think of something more apt for the kind of impact we want to make in people’s lives. So yes, crater it is and will remain.

Definition of Crater: A large or roughly circular hole or pit created by the impact of a meteorite or bomb.

When you register for a free account, we create for you a private, permanent online library where you can conveniently access your purchased books in any of the many available e-book formats. An account also allows you to make reviews , read all books online and purchase at a discount.

Simply go through our catalog and select the free e-book you desire to download. Click on the ‘Download Now’ button. Check your device for downloaded copy.

First, register for a free account and log into your account. This allows us to create an online account where you can access your purchased books in any format. Click on the book you want to buy to see the details. Add the book to your shopping cart and click on checkout when you are done to enter your payment details.

When you purchase a book, you click the shopping cart icon on the upper right side of the page and it takes you to your shopping cart.

After you purchase a book, you’ll receive an email confirming your purchase with a download link for your file. This takes you to the book’s page, where you can scroll down and download the e-book format that works best for you.